The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-04-14

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singing the praises Of God; if we could see
those little hearts, which at that age ought
not to be soiled with one unclean thought,
/ becoming the sewers for every abomina-
tion; if we could see those suffering little
ones sacrificed on the altar of every
iniquitous passion and baptized with fire
from the lava or the pit we would recoil,
crying out: "Avaunt, thou dream of hell"
| They are not always going to be children.
They are coming up to be the men and
women of this country. That spark OF
iniquity that might now be put out with
one drop of the water of life will become
the confagration of every green thing that
God ever planted in the soul. That which
ought to have been a temple of the Holy
! Ghost will become q SCARED and blistered
| ruin-every light quenched and every altar
in the dust. That petty thief, who slips
! into your store and takes a yard of cloth
from your counter, will become the high
wavman of the forest, or the burglar at
midnight, picking the lock of your money
safe and blowing up your store to hide the
villany. A great army, with staggering
step, and bloodshot eye and drunken hoot
they are coming on-gathering recruits
from every grog shop and den of infamy
in the land-to take the ballot box and
hurrah at the elections. The hard-knucbled
fist of ruffianism Will have more power
Than the gentle hand of intelligence and
sobriety. Men, bloated, and with the
signature of sin burned in from the top Of
the forehead TO the bottom of the chin,
+ viii lool, honest men ont Of countenance.
Moral colpses, which ought to be buried
I'D. feet deep to keep them from poisoning
/ the air, will rot in the face of the sun mt
( MONDAY. Industry in her plain frocl will
7 be unappreciated, while thousands of men
will wander around in idleness, with their
/ hands on Their lips, saying. "Ihe world
owes us a living 0, what tremendous
| power there is in iniquity when uneducated
, and unrestrained and unbalanced it goes
| on concentrating and deepening and wide
ening and gathering momentum until it
swings ahead with very triumph of desc
lation, drowning like surges, scorching like
flames, crushing like rocks! What are you
going to do with this abandoned popula-
ton of the streets? Will you gather them
in your churches? 1t is not the will of
your Heavenly Father that one of these
little ones should perish. If you have ten
respectable children in your class, gather
in ten that are not respectable. If in your
Bible class there be twenty young men who
have come from Christian homes ard ele-
CANT surroundings, let those twenty young
men 90 out and gather in twenty more of
, the young men of the city who are lost to
! God and lost to society. This outside
population, unless educated and restrained,
will work terror in ages that are to come.
Years ago atNew Orleans, when the cholera
was raging fearfully, steamboat put out
just before nightfall crowded with pas
sengers who were trying to escape from
the pestilence. After the boat had been
out little while the engineer fell with the
| phnlnrO The pontain EtarD q alton
4 went down among the passengers and
! asked: us there any one here who knows
ANYTHING &&Uat engineering2" A swarthy
! man replied: 81 am an engineer" ''Well,
said the captain, 81 would be very glad if
! yOu would take charae of this boat The
! man went to the engine The steamer
moved more rapid until after while
' the captain and some passengers We're
; alarmed and they went to see what
( was the matter, and they found that
this was n maniac engineer and that he
! was seated on the safety valve; and as they
! came to him, he said: al am commits
I stoned of satan to drive this steamer to
! hell" and he hourished his pistol, and
! would not come down. But after a while,
! through some stratagem, he was brought
! from his position, and the lives of the pas
sengers were saved. Oh! my friends, that
steamer had no such peril as our in nstitu-
ton5 are threatened with, if the ignorant
and unrestrlined children of this land shall
come up i'm their Ignorance and their crime
to engineer our civil and religious institu-
tons, and drive them on the rocks. Edu-
cate this abandoned population, or they
viii overthrow the institutions of this land.
Gather them into your Sabbath schools. [
congratulate You that many have been
gathered. Go iorth, teachers. in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the COM
ing Sabhaths may there be found gathered
scores and hundreds these wanderers,
and instead of |, ,SuO in lhe Sabbath-school,
we shall see 5000 or 4,0OO. and the grace
| OF God will come down upon them, and
the Holy Spirit will bring tAem all into the
truth.
Another charactc tic live church is
one with appropri e arc lecture. In the
| far West and amid des,i ne population, a
! log church is very appr .iate-the people
living In log houses. iIul in communities
! where people live in colr. ortable abodes, a
church uncommodiou J lacking in beauty
is moral nuisance. Lecause Christ was
born in n manger is no reason why we
should worship him in barn. Let the
churches of Jesus Christ be not only COM
Portable, but ornate. Years ago we re-
solved 10 have a comfortable church. We
resolved that it should be amphitheatlical
in shape. The prominent architects of the
country, after figuring on the matter a good
while, said that such church would not
be churchy, and they would have nothing
to do with the enterprise. But after a
while We found an architect willing to risk
his reputation. He put up for MS the first
tabernacle, i'll amphitheatrical style. We
liked it. All who came liked it. This
building followed i'll the same style. We
believe 1t is appropriate and adapted. An
angular church will have an angular the
ology. The church of Jesus Christ ought
to be great family circle. the pulpit only
the fireplace, around which they are
gathered in sweet and domestic COM
munion. But when our first tabernacle
went up, O, the caricature and the scoffing!
They said: It's a hippodrome! It's
holy circus! It's Ialmage's theater." But
the Lord came down with power upon
that old building. amt made it the gate of
heaven to great many. And this buitd-
ing followed. That we were right in per-
ST Ting in the style Of architecture is
proved by the fact that now there are
sixty. or seventy churches in the United
States in the same STYLE Indeed, our
tabernacle has reyulu ioniled church archi-
lecture IN this country. A live church
must have commudious a com Portable,
an adapted huilding. How omlable are
Thy tabemarles, o Lord of hosts!
would rather be "a doorReeper in the house
of my God than TO dwell in the tents of
wickedness."
Again, the characteristic of a live church
must be that it is Il soul-saving church. 1t
must he the old Gospel of Christ. Co."
say some people, "the Gospel of Christ
allows but small swing for a mans facul-
ties, and some men have left the ministry